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Pixelated text on black background with red heart and starburst symbols, showing animation changes in symbol positions.

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Pixelated text on black background with red heart and starburst symbols, showing animation changes in symbol positions.

Pixelated text on black background with red heart and starburst symbols, showing animation changes in symbol positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fra…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart icon shifts from top-left to below "idc" on left
  • starburst dots shift from top-right to above "idc" on right

Animation Summary

The red heart icon moves from top-left to below "idc" on the left side, while the red starburst dots move from top-right to above "idc" on the right side; text remains static.

Composition

  • centered text block
  • two symbol positions per frame

Dense Caption

Black background displays white pixelated text reading "idc wat they say im in love w/ u" across four lines. Top-left corner shows a solid red heart icon; top-right corner shows a red starburst of scattered dots. In the second frame, the heart and starburst icons shift to lower positions: the heart moves below "idc" on the left, and the starburst moves above "idc" on the right. The text remains unchanged throughout all visible frames.

Description

  • Pixelated text on black background with red heart and starburst symbols, showing animation changes in symbol positions.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080624164709708525949
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • text-based buddy icon
  • affectionate message animation
  • heart and starburst symbol movement

Objects

  • red heart

Subjects

  • heart icon

Visible Text

  • idc
  • wat they
  • say im
  • in love
  • w/ u

Visually Supported Entities

  • text-based icon
  • affectionate message

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • "idc wat they say im in love w/ u"
  • red heart icon
  • red starburst dots
  • text layout: four lines
  • animation: symbol position changes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080624164709708525949
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f3/f332cd34b3ebed3af5b5afe6187085d69223633e15282f7ba9c6763b478a6e06.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC
Archive ID
f332cd34b3ebed3a
SHA-256
f332cd34b3ebed3af5b5afe6187085d69223633e15282f7ba9c6763b478a6e06
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:04 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.105139

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text on black background with red heart and starburst symbols, showing animation changes in symbol positions.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 08:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,099 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 766

Review tags

  • icon movement (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • red heart (object, 0.80)
  • red starburst dots (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • heart icon (subject, 0.80)
  • starburst icon (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • icon movement

Animation

  • heart icon shifts from top-left to below "idc" on left
  • starburst dots shift from top-right to above "idc" on right

Animation Summary

The red heart icon moves from top-left to below "idc" on the left side, while the red starburst dots move from top-right to above "idc" on the right side; text remains static.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • centered text block
  • two symbol positions per frame

Dense Caption

Black background displays white pixelated text reading "idc wat they say im in love w/ u" across four lines. Top-left corner shows a solid red heart icon; top-right corner shows a red starburst of scattered dots. In the second frame, the heart and starburst icons shift to lower positions: the heart moves below "idc" on the left, and the starburst moves above "idc" on the right. The text remains unchanged throughout all visible frames.

Description

  • Pixelated text on black background with red heart and starburst symbols, showing animation changes in symbol positions.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080624164709708525949
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • text-based buddy icon
  • affectionate message animation
  • heart and starburst symbol movement

Objects

  • red heart
  • red starburst dots

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text
  • heart icon
  • starburst icon

Visible Text

  • idc
  • wat they
  • say im
  • in love
  • w/ u

Visually Supported Entities

  • text-based icon
  • affectionate message

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • "idc wat they say im in love w/ u"
  • red heart icon
  • red starburst dots
  • text layout: four lines
  • animation: symbol position changes
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
20080624164709708525949
Archive entry
20080624164709708525949.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080624164709708525949.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080624164709708525949.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016